After the fairy disappeared

Chapter 1422 One Person, One City
The road from Zhuowei to Yaodu is wide and straight, and very easy to walk on.

Yang Shan's team moved forward among countless convoys, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, and finally arrived at the most prosperous city in the Shining Gold Plain - Tianshui City.

However, the queue waiting to enter the city stretched for three miles!

From a distance, it looked like a huge crowd, and they didn't move forward for a long time.

He Lingchuan put his hands on the pergola and praised, "That's awesome."

"Brother Fan, is it usually so difficult to enter your Tianshui City?"

"Not really." Fan Shuang was also shocked by the scene. "Maybe it's because my king's birthday is coming soon, and the inspection of people entering and leaving Tianshui City is particularly strict."

With a major celebration approaching, the entire city of Tianshui was of course under martial law to prevent any unexpected accidents.

"Kuacha", a flash of lightning lit up the sky, and it looked like it was about to rain.

If we queue outside the city for an hour, won't we be soaked to the bone? Fan Shuang immediately said:
"Let me go and try to make some adjustments first."

After saying this, he rode his horse towards the city gate.

At this time, King Yao's decree and Fan Shuang's identity as a special envoy were particularly useful, helping the Yangshan caravan to cut in line and enter Tianshui City three hours earlier.

June is like a child's face. Fan Shuang had just finished the negotiation when thunder started to break out in the sky.

He turned around to greet the convoy. At that time, the light was behind him, and he saw a man leading the team slowly over the hillside. The heavy dark clouds were almost pressing down on the hillside, covering his head.

He walked forward, with lightning and thunder snaking in the sky, as if a violent storm was following him and rolling forward, approaching Tianshui City step by step.

A man, with a thunder, rolled towards a capital city.

Fan Shuang's heart was gripped with inexplicable fear and foreboding.

His body and soul were fixed in place, and he couldn't move his eyes away for a moment.

He stared like this for several breaths, until suddenly a child in the crowd nearby screamed, which instantly brought Fan Shuang back to his senses.

He looked again and realized that he was not a outsider at all. It was just He Lingchuan.
He Lingchuan even waved at him with a smile, looking completely harmless.

Fan Shuang rubbed his eyes, not knowing why he had this illusion.

"Brother He, Commander Zhao, come quickly, we have to rush into the city before the thunderstorm!"

The city was as lively as He Lingchuan and the others had imagined, but there were also many city patrol guards. You could meet patrolling guards every few hundred steps. Once you came across a suspicious person, they would immediately search and interrogate him.

He Lingchuan smiled and said, "It seems that Tianshui City is the safest during this period of time."

What follows next in Tianshui City is full of twists and turns, but that is probably on the political level; as far as public security is concerned, the city is heavily guarded, and the period around King Yao’s birthday should be the safest.

Fan Shuang was also muttering to herself: "Is the city defense so strict?"

Commander Zhao came over from behind and said, "I asked the city gate guards, and the order to impose martial law in the entire city was only issued this morning."

Fan Shuang was surprised: "This morning? That's weird, what happened?"

"Wait for me to send someone to the palace to inquire."

Afterwards, Fan Shuang took He Lingchuan and the others to check in. Because Sanmentou Inn was the closest to the palace and had the best food, it was hard to find a room at this time of year, but He Lingchuan's room was reserved in advance and was always available.

This is of course an arrangement from above.

After drinking some water and changing clothes, Fan Shuang rushed into the palace regardless of the dark clouds outside and applied for an audience on behalf of He Lingchuan.

It is said that there is a complicated procedure to go through, which will take a long time. He Lingchuan and Dong Rui went to Tianshui City for a walk.

Although he had read information about Tianshui City beforehand, He Lingchuan still felt curious when he walked into the city.

Tianshui City is very large, even larger than Panlong City after the third expansion, with a permanent population of more than 700,000. With the garrison, temple servants, merchants, foreign envoys, students, etc., there are more than 900,000 people. Its landform is a peculiar half mountain and half water, including the stone mountain in the east and the big lake in the west. The houses built by the people of Tianshui City stretch from the waterside to the mountain, lined up one after another, densely packed.

He Lingchuan only had four words in his mind to describe it:

Full of pits and valleys.

The buildings here are generally not tall, with three floors at most, with the exception of temples and towers.

He Lingchuan took a quick glance and his eyes were attracted by three or four tall towers in front of him. The houses in Tianshui City were not tall, but the pagodas were famously tall, at least more than ten feet high. Each one was made of stone, and the holes on each floor were embedded with golden bells or statues of gods.

The Yao people believed that the higher the stone towers used to worship gods, the better. The higher the towers were built, the more pious the people were. The tower dedicated to Miaozhan God was said to be more than 40 feet high, and standing on the top of the tower, one could overlook half of Tianshui City.

The ringing of the tower bells was like the whisper of gods.

Building a pagoda is a big event, and Tianshui City has a special pagoda management agency that is responsible for the reporting, approval, inspection and maintenance of pagodas. Private construction is not allowed by the public, otherwise it would be considered blasphemy and the punishment would be imprisonment at the very least and hanging at the worst.

In fact, although the name Tianshui City contains the word "water", there are a large number of stone buildings made from local materials in the city. The towers, temples, palaces, and even the riverside pools connecting the entire city are all made of large pieces of light brown or light red sandstone.

The main color of the whole Tianshui city is gray-brown and dark red. In addition to the golden roofs of temples, other buildings also like to use red clay tiles. However, skilled craftsmen also try to add more colors to the buildings, such as indigo, goose yellow, dark green, and even dark black and white.

At first glance, the brown and ochre are dotted with colorful colors.

Because of the use of a large amount of stone and multiple colors, the city of Tianshui under the sunlight combines grandeur and vicissitudes, coldness and vitality.

Walking down the street, He Lingchuan had the illusion that he had returned to the capital of Chiyan, one of the Bejia vassal states. The number of monsters here was second to none among the cities in the Shining Gold Plains, but the streets were also narrow, especially the alleys, which were winding and some of which could only accommodate people passing sideways. The fat man stopped.

Tianshui City is old, and the previous urban planning is no longer suitable for today's living needs, especially in the central area. He Lingchuan has heard Fan Shuang complain more than once that whenever there is an extreme rainstorm, the city center will be flooded, and some people have drowned in the past few years.

Because of the high and low terrain, this problem is almost impossible to solve and the accumulated water is difficult to drain out.

Fan Shuang also told them that when they first arrived, they should just walk along the main street and not go to the side alleys at the back. But who are He Lingchuan and Dong Rui? It would be strange if they would listen to her.

The main street was brightly lit, but as soon as they turned into the alley, the light was immediately reduced by more than half.

There are shops here, but the storefronts and signs are small.

The two passed by a strange shop. It was almost leaky on all sides. There was only a roof on top. The mud walls were embedded with gray-white clam shells, and the roof could no longer be seen.

Dong Rui said: "This place looks like a stable."

But there was not a single horse in the "stable", but it was packed with people.

(End of this chapter)